“Experience smoke chamber temperatures settling within 4-6 minutes after making adjustments as opposed to 10-15!  Now that’s efficiency!!  And you know what that means……steady even temps throughout the cook, that will produce moist, delicious, tender, smoked barbecue every single time!”  Continue reading below.

Draft is the way a smoker pulls or draws air into the firebox for the purpose of combustion.  While that’s happening the chimney helps the heat and smoke move through the cook chamber as it exits (air gets sucked in, and heat and smoke gets pushed through the cook chamber and out through the chimney).  The drafting system on our smokers is designed for efficiency, allowing for quick easy control over increasing and decreasing temperatures at will.  Other drum designs on the market outside of ours seem to suffer with this issue.  They leave the operator waiting around for as long as 10-15 minutes each time they make a change….just to see if they set the right temperature.  That’s no good.

For example, we’ve heard of complaints about competitor drum designs where they either haven’t been able to get hot enough to hold a steady temperature of 300°, or end up running way too hot and can’t maintain low and slow temps closer to 225°.  Unlike theirs ours don’t have those issues.  Furthermore, our drums don’t take 10-15 minutes each time you make a change to see where your temp will settle in.  Our design not only delivers just the right amount of air flow directly to where it’s needed, but keeps heat and smoke moving properly through the cook chamber.  This also produces a much cleaner combustion with lighter smoke known as “thin blue smoke”.  And that’s exactly what you want rather than thick acrid smoke that won’t make your barbecue taste good.  Clean tasting food is a definite indicator that you have great airflow.  Learn more about the drafting system in an upright smoker.